{"slug": "show-hn-whole-body-compute-a-local-5-organ-runtime-for-coding-agents-on-mac", "title": "Show HN: Whole Body Compute: A local 5-organ runtime for coding agents on Mac", "summary": "Whole Body Compute released `body`, a local macOS runtime that intercepts coding-agent file reads and tool outputs in under 3ms before they reach cloud billing, claiming up to 98.7% token reduction on large reads and 96.9%–99.5% sensory token reduction on desktop vision. Across 146 live unscripted agent sessions, including 100 official princeton-nlp/SWE-bench_Verified runs across 10 Python organizations, the project reports 30/30 (100% Pass@1) and 10/10 Pass^3 with context falling from 203.08M to 137.23M tokens, which it describes as zero accuracy loss. The tool auto-wires PreToolUse/PostToolUse hooks for Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Goose and Antigravity, and adds a 23-vendor secret redaction layer claiming 0 secret leaks and 0.0% ASR on AgentDojo.", "body_md": "**Cut agent token burn and latency with zero accuracy loss on SWE-bench Verified.**\n\nWhole Body Compute makes AI computing simpler, faster, and local: giving Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Goose, and Antigravity a `<3ms` AST context shield, native macOS vision, and on-device memory right on your Mac (with cross-platform Blood-Brain Barrier & FinOps audit support on Linux).\n\n```\n# Option 1: 1-line installer (macOS & Linux)\ncurl -fsSL https://wholebodycompute.com/begin | sh\n\n# Option 2: uv / pipx directly from GitHub\nuv tool install git+https://github.com/wholebodycompute/whole-body-compute.git && body begin\n\n# Option 3: Source checkout\ngit clone https://github.com/wholebodycompute/whole-body-compute.git\ncd whole-body-compute\npython3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate && pip install -e .\nbody begin\n```\n\nOr run a read-only 30-day token spend audit across your local agent logs with zero installation:\n\n```\ncurl -sSL https://wholebodycompute.com/audit.py | python3\n```\n\nCloud coding agents burn massive context windows re-ingesting full files, noisy test logs, and screenshots on every turn. **Whole Body Compute (`body`)** sits locally between your coding agent and macOS/Linux hardware, intercepting bloated reads and tool outputs in `<3ms` before they hit your cloud billing meter.\n\n```\n┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐\n│                            WHOLE BODY COMPUTE (5 CORE ORGANS)                          │\n├──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┤\n│ 01. THE HEART            │ 02. THE BRAINSTEM        │ 03. THE EYES & HANDS             │\n│ Thermal, Perfusion & CSI │ Local Metal, Router & KV │ Foveal AX DOM, Tactile & Vagus   │\n├──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┤\n│ 04. THE HIPPOCAMPUS      │ 05. THE IMMUNE SYSTEM (BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER)                 │\n│ Memory WAL, Flush & REM  │ Pre/Post Hooks, SensoryVector, <3ms AST Slicer & SecGate    │\n└──────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘\n```\n\n| Capability | Standard Unshielded Cloud Agent | With Whole Body Compute ( `body` ) | Measured Impact | \n|---|---|---|---|\n| **Harness Wiring** | Manual per-editor rules & scattered scripts | `body begin` auto-wires`PreToolUse` /`PostToolUse` hooks across Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, Windsurf, Cline & Goose | **60-second setup + 30-day FinOps receipt** | \n| **File & Log Reads** | Unbounded `read_file` (`2,000+` lines) & raw`pytest` /`cat` dumps | **Blood-Brain Barrier (`<3ms` AST Symbol Slicer)** + local Metal`ReconScout` | **Up to 98.7% token reduction** on large reads | \n| **Desktop Vision** | Full-screen PNG loops ( `7,650+` tokens/step) or heavy 24/7 video recorders | **Foveal Vision (`AXUIElement` DOM)** +`<50ms` Tactile git/file delta sensor (`<50MB` RAM) | **96.9%–99.5% sensory token reduction** | \n| **Session Hygiene** |  | **Cognitive Sentry (`body context`)** +**StateCapsule Flush (` body flush`)**`[Pro]` | **Zero-loss handoff** in`<30` steps | \n| **Pre-Egress Security** | Cloud classifiers run *after* data leaves your machine | `<1ms` 23-vendor secret redaction,`1Password` /Keychain blindfold,`<2ms` APFS CoW airlock & AST SecGate | **`0` secret leaks · `0.0%` ASR** on`AgentDojo` | \n\nEvaluated across **146 live unscripted agent sessions** (including `100` official upstream `princeton-nlp/SWE-bench_Verified` runs across `10` Python organizations at untouched historical commits, graded strictly against held-out `FAIL_TO_PASS` + `PASS_TO_PASS` test patches):\n\n| Evaluation Suite | Baseline (Unshielded) | `+ Whole Body Compute` | Key Empirical Result | \n|---|---|---|---|\n| **`SWE-bench Verified` (`k=3`, `60` Live Trials)**`Gemini 4 Carbon` across`10` official orgs | `30/30` (`100% Pass@1` )`10/10 Pass^3` ·`203.08M` ctx | **`30/30` (`100% Pass@1`)****` 10/10 Pass^3` · `137.23M` ctx** | **Zero accuracy loss** (`100%` strict`3/3` consistency),**`-32.4%` total context** (`-65.85M` tokens),**`-25.6%` billed input** ,**`-18.8%` fewer turns** | \n| **`SWE-bench Verified` (`Claude Code 2x2`, `40` Runs)**`Claude Sonnet` &`Claude Haiku` CLI | `Vanilla Sonnet` :`9/10` (`$4.00` )`Vanilla Haiku` :`8/10` (`$4.42` ) | **`Sonnet + WBC`: `10/10` (`$3.89`)****` Haiku + WBC`: `-36.1%` ctx (`$3.05`)** | **` Sonnet + WBC` solved `10/10` (`100%`)** and cost**`-12.0%` LESS than `Vanilla Haiku`** (`$3.89` vs.`$4.42` ) while beating it by`+20.0pp` accuracy | \n| **Multi-Track Live A/B (`18` Sessions)**`SWE-bench` +`CORE-Bench Hard` +`OSWorld` | `Haiku 4.5` :`9/9` (`100%` )`5.26M` ctx ·`$1.60` ·`312.9s` | **`Haiku 4.5 + WBC`: `9/9` (`100%`)****` 1.55M` ctx · `$0.51` · `190.5s`** | **`-67.8%` API spend (`3.11x` efficiency)** ,**`-71.9%` billed input** ,**`-39.1%` faster wall-clock time** | \n| **Security & Reliability (`AgentDojo` + `CyberSecEval 3`)** | `100.0%` Attack Success (`12/12` ) | **`0.0%` Attack Success (`12/12` blocked)** | **`0.0%` false-positive rate** (`6/6` benign passed),**`0.102ms` in-process gate overhead** | \n\nFull per-repository tables, `2x2` model matrices (`Sonnet`, `Haiku`, `Gemini`, `GPT-OSS 120B`), raw JSON telemetry receipts, and 1-command verification harnesses: **[`benchmarks/README.md`](https://github.com/wholebodycompute/whole-body-compute/blob/main/benchmarks/README.md)**.\n\n```\n# Core Onboarding, Audit & Organ Primitives (Free Forever)\nbody begin          # Wire Blood-Brain Barrier hooks & print 30-day FinOps ROI receipt\nbody audit-spend    # Scan Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, Windsurf, Cline, Goose, Codex & Aider spend\nbody savings        # Inspect live Blood-Brain Barrier token savings & active shield status\nbody report         # 5-Pillar operational & FinOps scorecard (Session, 24h & 7d trends)\nbody doctor         # Sub-second 5-organ health check (--exercise runs closed-loop reflex verification)\nbody heart          # Thermal state, Unified RAM headroom & model perfusion status\nbody eyes           # Live macOS AXUIElement Foveal DOM snapshot + on-demand Apple Vision OCR\nbody hands          # Deterministic UI actuation (ax_act) & <50ms tactile git/file delta sensor\nbody immune         # Blood-Brain Barrier audit log (--window 24h --tools --blocked), APFS CoW & SecGate\nbody daemon status  # Manage portable macOS LaunchAgents (install / status / logs)\n\n# Sovereign Context, Memory & Autonomous Consolidation [Pro / Team]\nbody license        # Activate Pro/Team Polar key (--activate <KEY>) or inspect tier quota\nbody context        # Context Saturation Index (CSI) & bloat attribution (--insights) [Pro]\nbody flush --auto   # Grounded StateCapsule session handoff & metabolic noise purge [Pro]\nbody memory         # Persistent Hippocampus SQLite WAL & FTS5 recall (--remember / --recall) [Pro]\nbody perfusion      # Evict idle local Metal models (--evict) or pre-warm weights (--prewarm) [Pro]\nbody sleep          # Nocturnal REM consolidation & Radix KV-Cache prefix digest [Pro]\n```\n\nDeep-dive component reference and glossary: **[`docs/WIKI_AND_GLOSSARY.md`](https://github.com/wholebodycompute/whole-body-compute/blob/main/docs/WIKI_AND_GLOSSARY.md)**.\n\nFree forever for individual developers, researchers, and internal non-competing business use under the [Open-Core Community License (`LICENSE`)](https://github.com/wholebodycompute/whole-body-compute/blob/main/LICENSE) and [`PATENTS.md`](https://github.com/wholebodycompute/whole-body-compute/blob/main/PATENTS.md) - commercial resale, managed hosting, or embedding into competing IDEs, agent harnesses, gateways, or FinOps products requires a separate commercial license (`hello@wholebodycompute.com`).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-whole-body-compute-a-local-5-organ-runtime-for-coding-agents-on-mac", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/wholebodycompute/whole-body-compute", "published_at": "2026-11-11 22:04:32+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-11 22:20:31.113345+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "large-language-models", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Whole Body Compute", "Claude Code", "Cursor", "Windsurf", "Cline", "Goose", "Antigravity", "SWE-bench Verified"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-whole-body-compute-a-local-5-organ-runtime-for-coding-agents-on-mac", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-whole-body-compute-a-local-5-organ-runtime-for-coding-agents-on-mac.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-whole-body-compute-a-local-5-organ-runtime-for-coding-agents-on-mac.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-whole-body-compute-a-local-5-organ-runtime-for-coding-agents-on-mac.jsonld"}}